Cover for buckets and pails.



E. A. & A. H. UNVERSAW. COVER FOR BUOKETS AND FAILS.

APPLICATION EILED MAY 12, 1914.

LIWAW. I Patented Jan. 5, 1915.

NORRIS PETERS 60., PHOTO-LITHFL. WASHINGWON. D. r

hurrah ramp covnn FoR BucKE'rs AND r-AILs.

Specification of Letters l atent.

i atiiteu lamina To all whom it may 00mm Be it known that we, EDWARD A. UNVER- saw and ALBERT H. UNVERSAW, citizens of the United States, residing at Indianapolis, in the County of Marion and State of Indiana, have invented certain new. and useful Improvements in Covers for Buckets and Pails, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to covers for containers, such as candy,ibutter, lard buckets, and the like. These commodities are generally placed upon the retail market'today in tinbuckets of prescribed capacities, and these buckets are provided upon their outer surfaces with suitable and expensive lithographed labels for displaying the names of the contents'and of the manufacturers. It is particularly true "in confining butter and lard in these containers, that during the summer months the contents becomes melted and seeps out beneath the lids of the buckets in sufficient quantities to necessitate extra wrapping of the buckets so as to prevent the purchasers clothes from being soiled.

Theobject of the above invention is to provide an inexpensive "and neat covering for the class of buckets above referred to, which coverings are readily placed upon the buckets at the time of purchase so that the purchasers clothes is preventedfrom com ing into directcontact with any grease that may have collected upon the outer surfaces of the buckets. 1

A further object of the invention is to provide a suitable and inexpensive covering for the class of buckets above referred to, which coverings may be easily and securely attached to the buckets, the coverings moreover affording ample space for the desired advertising matter, so that the expense attached to the more expensive labels now in common use is eliminated.

We accomplish the above objects of our invention, by means of the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a top or plan view of one of our improved covers for buckets, the same being shown fiat as it appears when stamped from the stock and before the ends are secured to gether. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a cover, the free ends of which have been attached, and which is ready to receive a bucket. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of one of our ii'nprove'd coversin operative tesitidn upon a bucket. Fig. 4c is a fragmentarydetail view in side elevation of acommon and well known style of bucket showing the means for holding our cover in position. Fig. is a modified construction of a portion of the cover, adapted to form the top thereof. r

Referring to the drawings, 10 represents the main body of the cover whichispreferably died'from a suitablegrade of paper, and 1.1 is a member that covers the top, of the bucket when the bucket-cover is in operative position. In order that thesecoveI's can be manufactured in large quantities and sold cheaply, these covers are out from the paper stock by means of suitabledies. At the same operation in which'the cover is cut from the paper stock the cover is provided with the two apertures 12, and the slit 13 running from the margin of the cover to tl'ieopenings 12. The cover is also provided with a slot 15, and a corresponding slot 16 is cut into the member 11, the latter also beingprovided witha tongue 17. Before the free 'endsof the cover are secured together with glue or fastening devices, suitable printing can be placed upon said cover to indicate the contents, and the name and place of manufacture. This saves the more expensive labels that are now employed on this class of buckets and pails. L j Lard and butter buckets are made after certain style well known to the trade, one of the distinctive features being a semispherical hollow shell 20 being soldered to the opposite sides of the buckets, these shells being provided with suitable apertures to receive the hooked ends of the bails or handles 21. These semi-spherical hollow shells 20 perform an additional service in that they enable us to readily secure ourcovers 10 and prevent them from being accidentally displaced. When one of the covers is opened, as shown in Fig. 2, a bucket is dropped into the cover, the semi-spherical shells 20 passing down through the slits 1.3 and into the apertures 12,,the paper stock between the apertures and the top edge of the covers along said slits spring back into position, the stock having sufhcient strength to hold the covers in position. The member 11 is then bent down over the top of the bucket and the tongue 17 is then passed from within through the slot 15 then bent upward and backward over the member 11 where the tree end of the tongue is held by insertinghave produced an inexpensive, neat and attractive cover for buckets and pai1s,'whereby the same are wrapped so as to present a neat package, and whereby the purchasers clothes may be protected against injury from the collection of any part of the contents that may leak out from the said buckets and pails. I

While we have described our invention with more or less minuteness as regards detailsof construction and arrangement, and asbeing embodied in certain precise forms, we do not desire to be limited thereto unduly or any more than is pointed out in the claims. On the contrary, we contemplate all proper changes in form, construction, and arrangement, the omission of immaterial elements, and the substitution of equivalents,

as circumstances may suggest or render expedient,

Having thus fully described our said invention, what we desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A cover for buckets formed of a single piece .of material having apertures for retaining said cover on the bucket, the said cover being slitted to render the apertures necessity accessible, said cover having an integrally formed 11d depending from its upper edge and said lid having a tongue depending from its marginal to the cover.

2. A cover for buckets formed of a single piece of material having apertures for retaining said cover on the bucket, the said cover being slittcd to render the apertures accessible, said cover being further provided with an elongated slot adapted to receive the fastening tongue, and said cover having an integrally formed lid depending from its upper edge provided with an elongated slot adapted to receive the fastening tongue, and a fastening tongue depending from the marginal edge of said lid and adapted to be passed through the elongated slots in the cover and lid for securing the latter to the former.

3. A cover for buckets formed of a single iece of material having apertures for retaining the said cover on the bucket, said cover being slitted to render the apertures accessible, and a detached lid formed independently of the cover and having an integral portion forming an ear for attaching said lid to the cover, and being further provided with anintegral portion forming a tongue for ten'iporarily securing said lid to the cover.

In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and seals at Indianapolis, Indiana, this 22nd day of April, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

edge for securing said lid EDWARD A. UNVERSAW. [L. 8.] ALBERT H. UNVERSAW. [L. S.l \Vitnesses F. W. lVonMER, J. A. MINTURN.

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